Climatology: Concepts and Applications

The scientific study of climate and weather is termed as climatology. It also attempts to study the causes of climate change and their impacts on human society. It is a subfield of physical geography which draws on the principles of biogeochemistry and oceanography. The principles of climatology are used for the analysis of accumulated data and pattern recognition. These patterns find applications in the field of weather forecasting. The subject of climatology can be categorized into variou...